Right click and drag to the trashcan

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Metspitzer

Since there is no delete icon anymore for files. It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
 
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Bruce Hagen

Metspitzer said:
Since there is no delete icon anymore for files. It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
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In Windows Explorer? You can File | Delete or Right Click | Delete.
 
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Paul in Houston TX

Metspitzer said:
Since there is no delete icon anymore for files. It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
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In all my years of Windows I have never used that icon.
I like hitting the Del key better. Or left click drag to trash.
My Win 7 machine has the del icon, del key, left click drag,
right click drag confirm, etc.
 
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Nil

Since there is no delete icon anymore for files. It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
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Hold the shift key down while you left-click and drag to the recycle
bin. The file will be permanently deleted with no questions asked.
Dangerous.
 
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Stan Brown

Since there is no delete icon anymore for files.
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Why would you need one? Just hit the Delete or Del key on your
keyboard.
It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
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I've never understood the purpose of a confirming prompt when using
the Recycle Bin, and in fact I find it irritating. On any computer
I'm using, I right-click Recycle Bin, select Properties, and uncheck
"Display Delete Confirmation Dialog". Then all deletes are deletes
with no confirm, but still with the possibility of recovery.

That's as opposed to Shift-Delete, which really deletes(*) without
moving to the Recycle Bin.

(*) For some value of "really". As you probably know, the file is
MARKED as deleted but is still on your disk until or unless something
else happens to overwrite it. To delete a file in truth, you need
third-party erase software.
 
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Menno Hershberger

Hold the shift key down while you left-click and drag to the recycle
bin. The file will be permanently deleted with no questions asked.
Dangerous.
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I have my recycle bin turned off on all drives. I've had it that way in
every version of Windows I can remember. If I didn't want to gone forever
I'd never have deleted it in the first place!
 
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Char Jackson

I've never understood the purpose of a confirming prompt when using
the Recycle Bin, and in fact I find it irritating. On any computer
I'm using, I right-click Recycle Bin, select Properties, and uncheck
"Display Delete Confirmation Dialog". Then all deletes are deletes
with no confirm, but still with the possibility of recovery.
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I think I understand the purpose of the delete confirmation, but I'm
totally with you in that I find it annoying and disabling it is one of
the first things I always do immediately after installing a recent
Windows OS.
 
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Ken Blake

I have my recycle bin turned off on all drives. I've had it that way in
every version of Windows I can remember. If I didn't want to gone forever
I'd never have deleted it in the first place!
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So you are perfect, and never make a mistake deleting something?
That's great; I wish I were that good.

For all the rest of us, having the recycle bin on is the way to go. It
may not happen often, but every now and then all the rest of make a
mistake and want something back we've deleted. The recycle bin is a
great feature. It costs next to nothing in disk space or performance
and lets us easily recover mistakes we make.
 
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Nil

I have my recycle bin turned off on all drives. I've had it that
way in every version of Windows I can remember. If I didn't want
to gone forever I'd never have deleted it in the first place!
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Well, lah di dah.

I've often deleted things by mistake and have been grateful to have
been able to recover them easily.

I know how to bypass the recycle bin at will, but I rarely do. It's a
potentially useful tool that has no negative features, unless you're
the type that feels it compromises your masculinity.
 
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Ken Blake

Well, lah di dah.

I've often deleted things by mistake and have been grateful to have
been able to recover them easily.

I know how to bypass the recycle bin at will, but I rarely do. It's a
potentially useful tool that has no negative features, unless you're
the type that feels it compromises your masculinity.
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LOL! My point exactly, but you said it better than I did.
 
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Leon Manfredi

Since there is no delete icon anymore for files. It would be nice to
right click and drag to the trash. A move to the trash could be the
same as delete with no confirm.
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S'funny..... I just right clicking on my desktop icons and the menu appears,
whereupon I click delete and off to the trash it goes (Ultimate).

MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG!
 
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Menno Hershberger

So you are perfect, and never make a mistake deleting something?
That's great; I wish I were that good.

For all the rest of us, having the recycle bin on is the way to go. It
may not happen often, but every now and then all the rest of make a
mistake and want something back we've deleted. The recycle bin is a
great feature. It costs next to nothing in disk space or performance
and lets us easily recover mistakes we make.
Click to expand...

No, I'm not perfect. If I was I wouldn't frequent all these newsgroups all
the time. I make lots of mistakes. I'm human. But rarely have I ever
deleted anything I didn't mean to.

I will try to be more careful with my comments in the future... :)
 
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